Qulleq, Qutdleq or Kutdlek is an uninhabited island in the
King Frederick VI Coast
King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic ...
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Sermersooq
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
municipality in southern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
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Geography
Qulleq is an irregularly-shaped island that lies off the southeastern coast of Greenland. It is located 5.5 km from the shore off the mouth of the
Anorituup Kangerlua fjord, to the
north-northeast of
Cape Tordenskjold, northeast of
Nuuk Point.
Qulleq is the largest and southernmost island of a small offshore archipelago of four main islands, including
Qipinnguak close by to the west,
Takisoq to the northwest and
Qeqertarsuaq
Qeqertarsuaq () is a port and town in Qeqertalik municipality, located on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland. Founded in 1773, the town is now home to a campus of the University of Copenhagen known as Arctic Station. ...
to the north. The island's length is and its maximum width .
History
Qutsigsormiut is an important
Paleo-Eskimo
The Paleo-Eskimo (also pre-Thule or pre-Inuit) were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland prior to the arrival of the modern Inuit (Eskimo) and rel ...
archaeological site on Qulleq's southern coast. It is located by a south-facing bay known as Qulleq Sound that forms a sheltered
natural harbour
A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...
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A
LORAN transmitting station was built on the southeastern point of the island and lies now abandoned.
See also
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List of islands of Greenland
References
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External links
Distribution Map of Archaeological, Historic, Cultural and Ancient Sites sites in GreenlandNew insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Kujalleq